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 IOP Publishing and APS commit to ORCID scheme
IOP Publishing and the American Physical Society (APS) have signed up to the ORCID Open Letter, committing to collecting ORCID iDs for authors submitting to their journals following stated best practices. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) claims to be a not-for-profit organisation that provides a unique digital name, or iD, which identifies researchers and scholars, and distinguishes them from others with similar names.
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 SAGE Research Methods Video and Index on Censorship magazine receive awards for Publication Excellence
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that SAGE Research Methods Video has received an Award of Excellence and Index on Censorship magazine has received a Grand Award from the Annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX Awards). SAGE Research Methods Video is a collection of nearly 500 streaming videos launched in 2016 designed to teach students and researchers the research process. Index on Censorship is a magazine devoted to protecting and promoting free expression.
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 CABI merges with SciDev.Net to create stronger organisation for sustainable development
Scientific publisher CABI and SciDev.Net have agreed to merge, creating a stronger and more diverse combined organisation to help boost their shared mission to improve lives around the world. CABI claims to be an intergovernmental, not-for-profit organisation that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.
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 RCUK confirms its Open Access block grant funding levels until 2020
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has announced that the Open Access block grants will be continued at current levels for a further 2 years. The grants fund costs relating to articles published in peer reviewed journals that have resulted from RCUK funded research and which acknowledge Research Council Funding.
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 Altmetric badges now live on CSIRO Publishing platform
Alternative metrics provider Altmetric has announced that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Publishing has integrated Altmetric data into its journal platform to highlight the online shares and discussion surrounding published articles. CSIRO Publishing is part of the federal government agency for scientific research in Australia, and publishes books, journals and magazines across a range of scientific disciplines.
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 Authorea integrates with bioRxiv to allow direct submission of preprints
Authorea, an online collaborative document editor for researchers, has announced a partnership and direct submission agreement with bioRxiv, a preprint server for biological research. The agreement enables researchers writing documents on Authorea to submit preprints directly to bioRxiv with one-click.
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 Equinox Publishing joins Aggregagent and ALPSP Collections
ACCUCOMS and Equinox Publishing Ltd have signed an agreement to include Equinox journals in Aggregagent. The journals will also be part of the ‘ALPSP Collections’, a series of packages of content from ALPSP members, within the Aggregagent framework.
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